It took Parker Brothers, who then owned the Trivial Pursuit license, a decade to come up with a new set of Genus questions. Genus II has the distinction of having the hardest 'Entertainment' category of all editions of the game, probably thanks to a wider scope of Entertainment questions from earlier in the last few centuries. These cards had a yellow or cornsilk border instead of dark blue, though all the original categories and colors were intact. The biggest difference with this edition's Trivial Pursuit cards is the look of the card. Not the easiest and not the hardest edition of the basic Trivial Pursuit game, Genus II also came with 6,000 questions on 1,000 Trivial Pursuit cards. The front had just the thin blue border and the six color and category code markers along with the questions on the right side. The answer side had the word 'Genus' in script on the left side of the card with answers on the right, next to the color code and symbol for each category.
The cards for this edition set the standard for all future editions of the game-vaguely rectangular in shape with a dark blue border. It is considered the second-toughest edition of Trivial Pursuit. This is the first edition of Trivial Pursuit.
